This thread warms my heart. It's great to see the code4lib community
working in concert.

That is all.

</threadjack>



On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Rees, John (NIH/NLM) [E] <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm no expert, but +1 for looking at the full UMLS toolkit. There's also a
> semantic UMLS service. I'm sure that Olivier Bodenreider and the UMLS staff
> would be helpful if you made direct inquiries about your use case.
>
>
> John P. Rees
> Archivist and Digital Resources Manager
> History of Medicine Division
> National Library of Medicine
> 301-496-8953
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Hanson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 3:38 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata
>
> MeSH is one of >100 health/biomedical vocabularies listed in UMLS, so I
> suspect there may be other vocabularies in there that are a better fit for
> public health:
>
> https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/source_faq.html
> https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/
>
> You may need to sign up for a free license in order to browse all
> vocabularies:
> https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/umls.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> Karen Hanson
> Research Developer
> Portico
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Jacob Ratliff
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:43 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata
>
> MeSH is a little helpful, but it is slightly different than the realm of
> public health, which spends a lot of time on the systems surrounding
> health, as well as the health areas themselves. (e.g. Pharmacy supply chain
> management). That's the direction I'm heading though!
>
> Jacob
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Carol Bean <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > MeSH?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I currently work in an International public health non-profit, and
> > > we
> > are setting up enterprise wide document management for dealing with
> > Knowledge Management and Information Management issues. Lots of moving
> > pieces, but I wanted to get some input on metadata specific to the
> > medical/health world. I am looking for some metadata guidance
> > specifically related to the medical/health world. Is anyone using any
> > standard controlled vocabularies? Should I be looking into Linked
> > Data? I'm starting off the research phase for all of the metadata, so
> > links to resources and case studies is greatly helpful!
> > >
> > > Bonus points to anything that is international in scope, as over 75%
> > > of
> > the employees at my company are non-US based (most of them in Africa).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jacob Ratliff
> > > Information Architect / UX Specialsit Management Sciences for Health
> > > [log in to unmask]
> >
>



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